xii, 355 pages : 25 cm

A portrait of a British warship that played a key role during the wartime years of the Napoleonic era describes the ship's service in three crucial sea battles, as well as its role in Napoleon's ultimate surrender

Includes bibliographical references and index

Born of oak : 1782-6 -- A stormy launch : 1786 -- His Majesty's dockyard at Chatham : 1787-90 -- Preparations for war : 1790-4 -- The glorious first of June : 1794 -- The aftermath : 1794 -- Lord Cranstoun and Billy Blue : 1794-7 -- The Bay of Cadiz : 1797 -- In search of Napoleon : 1797-8 -- Death at the mouth of the Nile : 1798 -- The West Indies : 1798-1804 -- Prelude to Trafalgar : 1804-5 -- Victory or death : 1805 -- Voices from the lower deck : 1805-7 -- Cruises in Northern waters : 1807-14 -- Napoleon and the Bellerophon : 1815 -- Into exile : 1815 -- A hulk on the medway : 1815-36

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